Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-30
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WOMAN AND HOME.
THE DlSCOURTEsY OF THE FAIR
SEX TOWARD EACH OTHER.

Learn to Tighten DEMONSTRATING of
Daughters-A Decorative Novelty-The
Domestic Money Question-Niddie Nor
gan-Neighbors-TheB aby--Notes.
However deferential and courteous women
ere in their bearing toward men. they are
far too apt to be rude to their own sex.
They indulge in Prescriptions toward each
other that men of their class would never
think of inficting upon men. This dis
courtesy of women toward their kind is none
the less rudeness and vulgarity because it is
on an average Of a small, whimsical, Petu-
la.lu type 1t is not only evidence Of i'm
perfect breeding, but supreme, though IN
conscious, selSshness.
They give scant heed to each others rights.
They push and jostle each other at theatre
entrances on matinee days. They fill up that
portion Of a seat in a suburban train they do
not occupy with parcels If other females no
less intrepid in absorbing the prerogatives of
others than they, but little behind them in
appearing, ask for the space to be cleared
they grumble and scowl, adopting the most
ungracious manner possible.
by an old lady with white hair, slowly walked
through a suburban car The other afternoon.
The young lady paused wherever some well
dressed woman sat with the evidences of her
days shopping beside her. Not one made a
motion of invitation 10 share her seat. Each
woman looked intently down or in an oppo-
site direction.
At last the young lady stopped before one
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a kindly nature.
"Madam," she said sweetly, "will you allow
me to assist you in disposing Of your pack
ages, SO that my mother can sit down beside
you"
The amiability in the placid face of tho
woman addressed was dispslled as by magic
at the gently voiced request
Il want to keep my things together con-
veniently," was the ungraciou5 reply.
The answer appeared 70 nettle the girl into
swift self assertion. she placed one hand on
Che seat and looked the speaker in the face
with straight determination.
"Did you pay two faresp she inquired.
chat has nothing to do with it. hurried
TO catch the train, 50 that l could have plenty
of room, and people who are late have no
right TO come disturbing those who have
taken pains to get here first"
"Ah! think | will have my mother sit
down here Notwithstanding" was the cool
answer, as the young lady piled the articles
on the 1oor and assisted her mother TO the
place they had occupied.
Il shall speak TO the conductor" snapped
the owner Of the things. "It's pretty how
de-do if people who have lot of packages
have got to divide their seats with others who
have none"
When the conductor came through the
beligerent dame contented herself with
merely garing significantly on the girl, who
stood leaning against the end of the car
In shops where the customers and clerks
are nearly all women the manners of both
buyer and seller are frequently abominable
toward each other. The women IN suit de-
partments wear an air of defensive indiffer-
ence unless the customer they chance TO have
Is one well known 10 them and q good pur-
rhaser. The saleswomen are accustomed to
and expectant of rudeness on the part of the
patron, and prepare for it by the assumption
Of q manner no less Objectionable than the
Dne they resent
They are the continual victims of tho
thoughtlezs sclfshness and petty stings of
their sex. Their patience i ripped and
frayed to threads every day by the uncalled
for demands of idle women who are not shop
pers, because they seek the stores for amuse-
ment and not 10 buy.
The woman who has nothing to do is very
apt to seel, the shops for entertainment. She
does not stop to consider that her divertise-
ment is taken at the expense of a sister, and
she forFets or does not know that the SaleSgirl
whose time she occupies in showing her
gowns or wraps is not only hired to display
garments, but TO sell them. She is careless
OF the fact that if this young persons book at
tie weeks end makes hug 2 small showing in
sales, while her hours have been taken up in
showing goods her ability as d saleswoman
is doubted in consequence. She forgets that
the result Is at tie best not the increase of
salary the girl is hoping for It IS not only
the possible but frequent result Of her amuse-
ment that the girl is "laid Off or discharged
for incompetency.--Jan Dale in Cbicag
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